‘We Have to Reach Further Than the Classroom'

‘We Have to Reach Further Than the Classroom'

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  Sam Hodgson

  Bill Freeman is the new president of the San Diego Education Association.
  

Posted: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:31 pm | Updated: 11:09 pm, Fri Aug 13, 2010.

While he was a lieutenant colonel in the Army, Bill Freeman mentored middle and high schoolers. But when he retired, he decided he needed to start earlier, in elementary school.

Freeman took up a second career and taught for a dozen years at Porter Elementary in Lincoln Park, drawing on his experiences growing up "not wealthy" in Waco, Texas. Last year, he was honored as Elementary Teacher of the Year. This year, he was elected as the new teachers union president, replacing Camille Zombro.

We joined him over coffee on his first